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System Properties Comparison Microsoft SQL Server vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. ScyllaDB vs. TDengine vs. TerarkDB

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NameMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column storeTime Series DBMS and big data platformA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score824.29
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score4.75
Rank#68  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Score2.60
Rank#107  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serverwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlwww.scylladb.comgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
github.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheredocs.scylladb.comdocs.tdengine.combytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperMicrosoftSAP infoformerly SybaseScyllaDBTDEngine, previously Taos DataByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release19891992201520192016
Current releaseSQL Server 2022, November 202217, July 2015ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 20243.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercialOpen Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license availableOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions availablecommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++CC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infocluster global secondary indicesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applicationsno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javayes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlyes, Luanono
Triggersyesyesnoyes, via alarm monitoringno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodestables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationnoneShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, but depending on the SQL-Server EditionSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infoin-memory tablesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per objectyesno
More information provided by the system vendor
Microsoft SQL ServerSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server AnywhereScyllaDBTDengineTerarkDB
Specific characteristicsScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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TDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantagesHighly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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High Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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TDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Key customersDiscord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metricsScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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TDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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TDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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